Provincial Tourism and Cultural Affairs Officer Maria Luisa A. Elduayan, along with staff from the PTCAO Tourism Services and Promotions Division, awarded certificates to 17 participants who underwent community tour guiding training through the Community Guiding Webinar and Mock Tour that was sponsored by the Department of Tourism Region 1, held last November 25 to December 12, 2020. The awarding took place at the Empress Hotel in Alaminos City.
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Preliminary configuration and rolling-out the Pangasinan’s Online Visitor Registration System (OVRS), now called Pangasinan Tara Na! was conducted by the Department of Tourism’s program developers, with select PTCAO and Management Information System Office (MISO), was held last Wednesday, February 3 via Google Meet.
The Pangasinan Tara Na! app will soon be launched as the province’s official digital contact tracing system for visitors entering the province, as stipulated on Pangasinan’s Provincial Ordinance No. 254-2020 or the ordinance Prescribing the Guidelines for the Reopening of Tourism in Pangasinan Amid COVID-19.
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Chef Ruben Ignacio, together with Chef Kenneth Arrieta, both from Lingayen, Pangasinan, bags the 2nd place in the Ilocano Culinary Heritage Competition and Exhibit held last February 2, at the Paoay Church Complex, Ilocos Norte.
The event is one of the component activities of the 203rd Founding Anniversary of the Province of Ilocos Norte. It is the first “Ridge and Reef” culinary competition that aimed to promote culinary tourism and at the same time showcase the traditional and local recipes in the region.
Chef Ruben and Chef Kenneth represented the Province of Pangasinan and showcased their own version of pinakbet called “Tinupig na Pianggang Bangus Belly with Pakbet Salsa”.
Congratulations to Chef Ruben Ignacio and company for showcasing the best of our culinary heritage in Pangasinan!
Photos by Ruben Ignacio Jr.
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The Province of Pangasinan through the Pangasinan Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office joins the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Filipino Nation in celebrating National Arts Month 2021.
The month of February of every year is declared as National Arts Month (NAM) by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 683. The proclamation highlights “the disciplines of theatre, dance, music, visual arts, architecture, literature, media arts, and film need to be preserved, enriched, and evolved in a climate of free artistic and intellectual expression”.
This year, NAM takes on the theme “Alab-sining, Alay-sigla” as the celebration continues to provide opportunities for harnessing artists’ creative energies in uplifting the nation’s spirit. Furthermore, the NAM 2021 celebration seeks to conserve, promote and popularize Filipino artistic creations; integrate the arts in the community life; and harness the arts as catalysts for values education.
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